Yeah the number of characters who I adored who have been tainted by the actors’ shitty political opinions is too damned high.

I know I can “love the art, hate the artist”, but c’mon man. Just let me have my characters and shut the fuck up while you collect your residuals.

I like the “born on third base; think they hit a home run” analogy, too.

These guys look like they’re crawling at first glance. Took me a second to realize they were in a crouch position getting ready to sprint.

What lind of Horton Hears a Who shit is this?

My tinnitus is a real vibration and not faulty signals from dead hair cells in my inner ear?

Seriously?

Yes. This.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

If you’re romantically interested in someone, say “hey, I’m romantically interested in you”.

Do not have a “crush”, do not have a friend you’re secretly in love with, do not secretly pine for anyone. It is not interesting, it does not make you stronger, you are not the protagonist in a romance novel, and you are dumb if you want to try to “save our friendship”.

If the other person is not interested, say “Thank you for your honesty. It’s been nice knowing you” and move on with your life. Stop wasting time. Life is too short.

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t waste precious time on imaginary scenarios.

Gen X reporting.

Be like Gandalf. Fuck all that other noise.

You’re right, though. AWS has far more data centers/regions. Even if a company only uses AWS, they can set up High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions that replicate across AWS regions.

But they won’t because:

• management doesn’t understand the technology, just “cloud good”.
• the experienced tech workers who do understand that you still need HADR in the cloud have all been laid off or retired.
• redundancy costs…wait for it…money.

Do not discard advice from older people because you think “the world has changed” and old people are out of touch.

ALL the advice that the older people in my life gave me in my teens about money/college/jobs/people/relationships was right, but I refused to listen to any of it because they were old and didn’t understand my life.

Don’t force yourself to learn every life lesson the hard way, like I did.

You’ll probably learn everything the hard way…but I tried to tell you.

In the spirit of ELI5 I’m going to give this an old school shot:

You see, a large part of the people in in this country have somehow convinced themselves that helping poor people is a bad thing. I’m not sure how that happened. When I was growing up helping poor people was a good thing. It’s even in the Bible that you’re supposed to help poor people.

The people who think that helping poor people is a bad thing feel very strongly about it and voted really, really hard. They voted harder than the people that think helping poor people is a good thing, and they voted waaaaay harder than the people who most likely think that helping poor people is a good thing but didn’t vote for whatever reason.

The politicians who got elected by the people who think helping poor people is a good thing (Democrats) don’t have much power right now, but the politicians who got elected by the people who think helping poor people is a bad thing (Republicans) still need the Democrats participation to run the government. The Democrats have refused to help the Republicans when the Republicans are actively trying to take away help for poor people.

So it is the Democrats “fault” for not participating when the Republicans intend to take away help for poor people. But the Republicans are in control and could easily just, you know, continue helping poor people.

Really it’s everybody’s fault for letting people who think helping poor people is a bad thing become so powerful that they now run the country. We could do better.

Honestly, in my opinion, follow the money. In any situation, try to figure out who will be making money. That’s where the truth is today.

Politicians --> money

Corporations --> money

News --> money

TV/Music/Movies --> money

“With a Little Bit of Luck” from My Fair Lady. I hate that song. I tried.

Oh man that’s the worst…trying not to spoil something for other people. I’ve accidentally spoiled shows that came out years ago. What’s the statute of limitations on spoilers?

On the flip side they’ll not get to experience knowing that the channel you were watching was the exact same for everyone. It feels really strange and isolating to me to know that what’s on my TV right now is streaming just to me.

I know it’s silly; we were still watching TV alone, but there was something about knowing that other people were watching the same thing at the same time that made it better.

Yeah, Android Auto is definitely the thing I didn’t think I needed and now can’t live without.

I have no idea if there can be a foss alternative that would work with existing cars…

history 500 | grep *snippet of command*

I’m 50 and I’m still too young. That movie gives me the heebie jeebies every time, though Laurence Fishburne is the most cool-headed, logical character in any horror movie I’ve ever seen.

A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I was 8, my Mom said I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I watched it at a friend’s house.

I was so sure that night that Freddy was going to grab me through the bed like he did to Johnny Depp that I went to my Mom in her room and admitted to her that I watched it then promptly vomited on her due to the accumulated fear.

Recipe?

I’ve done this a bunch of times when camping.

Good, crisp apples are the best. A carbonated honeycrisp apple is amazing!!!